Pretenders come. Pretenders go. But contenders go on and on until voters decide which have the right stuff to become their political parties standard-bearers in Novembers Election Day showdown. All the while, the candidates put forth their visions for America and address concerns of their fellow citizens: a slowing economy, increased global competition, rising energy and health care costs, home foreclosures, shortcomings of local school systems, terrorism, homeland security, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The list is seemingly endless.

Faculty from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have a longstanding tradition of bringing insight and analysis to election campaign coverage and are prepared to assist as you inform your readers, viewers and listeners about the issues that will matter to voters Nov. 4, 2008 Election Day. To view our Campaign 2008 directory of faculty experts, visit http://ur.rutgers.edu/experts/campaign2008.

For additional information about recent election-related scholarship and research by select Rutgers faculty members, visit Rutgers Campaign 2008 Research Highlights page at http://ur.rutgers.edu/medrel/science/election08.shtml.

Economy and Economic Development

ROBERT BURCHELL is a distinguished professor and co-director at the Center for Urban Policy Research, part of Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. He can discuss land use policy, including sprawl prevention; housing development strategies; community redevelopment; and economic development.

Contact Burchell at 732-932-3133, ext. 542 (office), or burchell@rci.rutgers.edu.

HENRY COLEMAN is a professor at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick and interim director of the New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute (a Bloustein School affiliate that identifies, analyzes and disseminates information critical to informed public policy development in and for the African-American community in New Jersey and the region). An economist, he is one of the countrys leading experts in the area of government finance. He can discuss state and local finance; intergovernmental relations; taxation, including dedicated revenue streams; urban-suburban disparities; housing; income redistribution and labor force utilization.

Contact Coleman at 732-932-2499, ext. 616 (office), or hcoleman@rci.rutgers.edu.

JAMES W. HUGHES is a professor of urban planning and dean of Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. He is director and

co-author of many Rutgers Regional Reports that have documented employment and other socioeconomic trends in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. Hughes has taught Housing Economics and Markets and courses in demography. He can discuss the New York-New Jersey regional economy and national economic trends, state and regional demographics, housing and real estate markets, and urban redevelopment and sprawl.

Contact Hughes at 732-932-5475, ext. 756 (office), or jwhughes@rci.rutgers.edu.

JOSEPH J. SENECA, an economist, is university professor at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. He is chair of the New Jersey Council of Economic Advisers and has provided nonpartisan economic analysis to both Democratic and Republican administrations for 30 years. He is co-author of many Rutgers Regional Reports that have documented employment and other socioeconomic trends in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. He can discuss the New York-New Jersey regional economy and national economic trends; state and local economic development and finance; and public policy and government regulation as they affect such areas as environmental health and protection, housing and business.

Contact Seneca at 732-932-2993, ext. 757 (office).

Education Policy

W. STEVEN BARNETT is a Board of Governors Professor of Education, Economics and Public Policy and director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers in New Brunswick. His research includes studies of the economics of early care and education, including costs and benefits, the long-term effects of preschool programs on childrens learning and development, and the distribution of educational opportunities.

Contact Barnett at 732-932-4350, ext. 228 (office), or sbarnett@nieer.org.

RICHARD DUSCHL is a professor of learning and teaching at Rutgers Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick. His research examines how the history and philosophy of science can be applied to science education. Duschls work aims to establish new ideas about how strategies can help learners and teachers make scientific thinking visible. He is also an expert in informal science education and in earth science education. He publishes widely on inquiry, science teaching, learning, cognition and assessment.

Contact Duschl at 732-932-7496, ext. 8111 (office), or rduschl@rci.rutgers.edu.

Electoral Politics

FRANK FISCHER is a professor of political science at Rutgers in Newark. He teaches courses on the American presidency and the policy-making process. His research interests include public policy analysis, comparative public policy, environmental policy and administration, science and technology policy, public administration and bureaucratic politics, and U.S. and German politics. He can discuss the impact of intelligence reports on national security, U.S.-European relations and the effectiveness of the Democratic-led Congress.

Contact Fischer at 973-353-5105, ext. 5171 (office), or ffischer@.rutgers.edu.

RICHARD R. LAU, a professor of political science in Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick, has studied political decision-making and voting and the effect of media on political campaigns. He is an expert on the different strategies voters use to help them reach decisions, the role of self-interest in political attitudes and behavior, and the effects and effectiveness of negative political advertisements. He is the author, with David P. Redlawsk, of How Voters Decide: Information Processing During Election Campaigns.

Contact Lau at 732-932-1827 or ricklau@rci.rutgers.edu.

GERALD POMPER is a Board of Governors Professor of Political Science (Emeritus) in Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences and at the Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick. He is a specialist in American elections and politics, with expertise in such areas as the presidency, national campaigns, campaign discourse, campaign finance and political party regulation.

Contact Pomper at 732-932-9384, ext. 222 (office), or gpomper@rci.rutgers.edu.

INGRID REED is director of the New Jersey Project, an initiative designed to reinforce and expand the contributions of Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics to the governance and politics of its home state. Among its initiatives are programs on campaign and election activity, women and politics, welfare reform and governance issues. Reeds work focuses on campaigns and elections from the point of view of the citizen. Reed has taught New Jersey: The Case Study of a State in the Federal System. She can discuss the importance of issues-oriented, rather than personality-driven campaigns, and the media and campaigns, including the effectiveness of negative advertising.

Contact Reed at 732-932-9384, ext. 232 (office), or ireed@rci.rutgers.edu.

ALAN ROSENTHAL is a professor of public policy and political science at Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick. He has collaborated in activities with the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation. He has supervised comprehensive studies of legislative organization and procedures commissioned by the legislatures of Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi, and Wisconsin, and has worked with legislatures in 30 other states. In New Jersey, Rosenthal chaired the Ad Hoc Commission on Legislative Ethics and Campaign Finance. He served as a fellow in Harvards Program on Ethics and the Professions and as a research fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School.

Contact Rosenthal at 732-932-9384, ext. 251 (office), or alanr@rci.rutgers.edu.

JOHN WEINGART is the associate director of Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick. His areas of expertise include New Jersey politics, land use and environmental protection, public participation, nuclear power, nuclear waste, risk management and risk communication. Weingart previously worked in New Jersey state government, focusing on environmental and land use issues. His served as director of the Division of Coastal Resources, assistant commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection and executive director of the states Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility Siting Board.

Contact Weingart at 732-932-9384, ext. 290 (office), or john.weingart@rutgers.edu.

Energy Policy

FRANK FELDER is the director of the Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. His primary research area is the reliability and efficiency of restructured electric power systems. He has published widely in professional and academic journals on market power and mitigation, wholesale market design, reliability, transmission planning, market power, and rate design issues. For industry clients, he has conducted several market power analyses and has testified before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and several state utility commissions on market power and mitigation.

Contact Felder at 732-932-5680, ext. 670 (office), or ffelder@rci.rutgers.edu.

Environment and Climate Change

ANTHONY BROCCOLI is an associate professor in the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in New Brunswick. He is the director of the Center for Environmental Prediction, and co-organizer of the Rutgers Climate and Environmental Change Initiative. His primary research interest is climate modeling, with particular emphasis on the simulation of past climates and climate change.

Contact Broccoli at 732-932-9800, ext. 6202 (office), or broccoli@envsci.rutgers.edu.

MARTIN BUNZL, a professor of philosophy, directs Rutgers Initiative on Climate Change, Social Policy and Politics, which seeks to marshal the resources of the social sciences at the university to address challenges posed by global warming, greenhouse gases and reduction of carbon emissions. Its mission is to conduct research, educate students and perform public service to better understand how both state and national public institutions can respond to these challenges.

Contact Bunzl at 732-932-9384, ext. 266 (office), or bunzl@rutgers.edu.

PAUL FALKOWSKI is a Board of Governors Professor of Geological Sciences at Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and in the Department of Geological Sciences in New Brunswick. His research is wide-ranging, from the evolution of mammals to nitrogen cycling to photosynthesis and phytoplankton biophysics. He is widely recognized for his contributions in the fields of biogeochemistry (specifically carbon and nitrogen cycling), climate change and his co-authorship of a book on aquatic photosynthesis. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Contact Falkowski at 732-932-6555, ext. 370 (office), or falko@imcs.rutgers.edu.

JENNIFER FRANCIS is a research professor of marine science at Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences in New Brunswick. She is a specialist in polar weather, and in particular, in the use of computer modeling to predict and explain polar weather. Her recent work has helped explain the diminishing icecap at the North Pole.

Contact Francis at 732-708-1217 or francis@imcs.rutgers.edu.

Health Care Policy

JOEL C. CANTOR is the director of the Center for State Health Policy and professor of public policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers in New Brunswick. Cantors research focuses on issues of health care regulation, financing and delivery. His recent work includes studies of health insurance market regulation, state health system performance and access to care for low-income and minority populations.

Contact Cantor at 732-932-4653 (office) or jcantor@ifh.rutgers.edu.

STEPHEN CRYSTAL is chair of the Division on Aging and a research professor at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers in New Brunswick. He is a health services researcher and sociologist who can discuss issues involving pharmaceutical drugs, Medicare and Medicaid, and health costs for the elderly.

Contact Crystal at 732-932-8579 (office) or scrystal@rci.rutgers.edu.

Homeland Security

FRANK ASKIN is founder and director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at the Rutgers School of Law-Newark, where he teaches election law. Under his almost four-decade leadership, the clinic has established numerous important legal precedents in civil rights and international human rights cases. He can comment on balancing civil liberties in responding to terrorism and Executive Branch obstruction of congressional oversight.

Contact Askin at 973-353-5687 (office) or faskin@kinoy.rutgers.edu.

LEE CLARKE, an associate professor of Sociology in Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick, is an internationally known expert on disasters and organizational and technological failures. His key research interests include community response to biological attacks, natural and man-made disasters, evacuation, homeland security, panic, risk communication and terrorism.

Contact Clarke at 732-445-5741 (office) or lclarke@rci.rutgers.edu.

CHRIS KOZUB is associate director of safety and security programs at the National Transit Institute

(NTI), a unit of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. Established by Congress, NTI has been funded through a cooperative agreement with the Federal Transit Administration since 1992. NTI develops and delivers a national program of training and education for and about the transit industry. Among security-related courses NTI offers are Infectious Disease Awareness and Prevention, Security Incident Management for Transit Supervisors and System Security Awareness for commuter railroad, passenger vessel and transit employees.

Contact Kozub at 732-932-1700, ext. 49 (office), or ckozub@nti.rutgers.edu.

FRED ROBERTS is director of Rutgers Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), director of the Homeland Security Center of Excellence for Dynamic Data Analysis (DyDAn) and a professor in the Department of Mathematics. Roberts work on homeland security has led him to chair the Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative, which coordinates homeland security research at Rutgers. He also co-chairs the N.J. Universities Homeland Security Research Consortium and serves on numerous federal and state homeland security advisory committees.

Contact Roberts at 732-445-4303 (office) or froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu.

Immigration Policy

JANICE FINE is an assistant professor of labor studies and employment relations in Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick. Her areas of expertise include immigrant labor and public policy issues, low-wage workers, and immigration policy. Her book, Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of a Dream, examines community organizations and worker centers as alternatives to labor unions improving wages and working conditions for immigrant workers. Fine is a member of New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzines Blue-Ribbon Panel on Immigration Policy.

Contact Fine at 732-932-1746 or jrfine@smlr.rutgers.edu.

International Policy and The Middle East

HOOSHANG AMIRAHMADI is director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a professor of urban planning and policy development at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, both at Rutgers in New Brunswick. His teaching and research interests include urban and regional economics, comparative regional policies, international and regional investments, and global restructuring. Amirahmadi is founder and president of the independent American Iranian Council (AIC), a research and policy think tank devoted to improving dialogue and understanding between the peoples of Iran and the United States. He is also a founder of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis and served as its director for many years. Amirahmadi was a candidate for president in the Ninth Presidential Election in Iran in June 2005.

Contact Amirahmadi at 732-932-3822, ext. 737, and 732-445-8444 (both office) or

609-509-2999. He can also be reached at amirahma@rci.rutgers.edu or hooshang@amirahmadi.com.

ERIC DAVIS is a professor of political science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers in New Brunswick. He is a Carnegie Scholar for 2007-2008. Davis is the author of Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (2005); Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory, and Popular Culture (1991); and Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941 (1983). He recently returned from a conference on the future of Iraq at the Hollings Center in Istanbul, and research in Iraq and Jordan for his forthcoming book, Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq (Cambridge University Press). Among the undergraduate courses he has taught are Contemporary Politics of the Middle East, Arab Politics and Society, Advanced Topics in Middle Eastern Politics, Critical Perspectives on the Middle East and Culture and Revolution in the Middle East.

Contact Davis at 732-932-9322 (office) or emdavis@rci.rutgers.edu.

ROY LICKLIDER is a professor of political science at Rutgers in New Brunswick. His research interests include foreign policy, terrorism and political response to terrorism, nation building and civil wars. He teaches undergraduate courses in American foreign policy, international relations and how civil wars end.

Contact Licklider at 732-932-9249 (office) or licklide@rci.rutgers.edu.

Politics and the Media

DAVID GREENBERG is an assistant professor of journalism and media studies and history in Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies in New Brunswick. He is an expert on the presidency and presidential campaigns with an emphasis on questions of public relations, propaganda, spin, image-making and presidential debates. Greenberg is the author of two books Presidential Doodles and Calvin Coolidge and writes the History Lessons column for Slate.

Contact Greenberg at 732-932-7500, ext. 8178 (office), or davidgr@scils.rutgers.edu.

MONTAGUE KERN is an associate professor of journalism and media studies in Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies in New Brunswick. She is an expert in mass media and elections, specifically in the communication processes operating in political speeches and advertising, and citizen use and interpretation of information. Kern can discuss how politicians bypass the press to reach the public through a medium which they themselves control, how citizens learn from political information and how new technologies relate to candidates strategies.

Contact Kern at 202-362-4739 (office; sabbatical, spring semester 2008) or mkern@scils.rutgers.edu.

BETH LEECH is an associate professor of political science at Rutgers in New Brunswick. She was a journalist for Gannett and Cox newspapers in Texas, Ohio, South Dakota and Illinois. Her expertise includes the mass media and interest groups in the public policy process. She is involved in a project funded by the National Science Foundation that examines policy argumentation and issue definition by interest groups in Washington and is writing a book on interest group lobbying strategies. Leech can comment on the medias coverage of the issues versus coverage of the horse race, candidates attempts to spin the media, interest groups and their use of the mass media, and soft money in politics.

Contact Leech at 732-932-1918 (office) or leech@polisci.rutgers.edu.

ROBERT SNYDER is an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers in Newark and can provide sharp insight into media and spin. Snyder has an extensive record as both a working journalist and a media analyst. He has worked on newspapers, magazines and in television, including as editor of Media Studies Journal, a quarterly dedicated to analysis of the news media by journalists, scholars and informed commentators.

Contact Snyder at 973-353-5119, ext. 33 (office), or rwsnyder@andromeda.rutgers.edu.

Polling

TIM VERCELLOTTI is director of polling and an assistant research professor at Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick. Prior to joining Rutgers, Vercellotti served as assistant professor of political science and director of the Elon University Poll, a statewide telephone survey conducted six times per year at Elon University. Before entering academia, Vercellotti covered local and state government and politics as a reporter for The Pittsburgh Press and the Raleigh News & Observer.

Contact Vercellotti at 732-932-9384, ext. 285 (office), or tim.vercellotti@rutgers.edu.

CLIFF ZUKIN is a professor of public policy and political science at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the Eagleton Institute of Politics, and a senior fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, all at Rutgers in New Brunswick. He is a former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He is a national expert on opinion polling, mass media and American politics, and is co-author of A New Engagement?: Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen.

Contact Zukin at 732-932-4100, ext. 6205, or 732-932-9384, ext. 247 (both office), or zukin@rci.rutgers.edu.

Race and Politics

WAYNE GLASKER is an associate professor in the Department of History and director of the African-American Studies Program at Rutgers in Camden. Glaskers fields of expertise include slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, race and ethnicity, and the civil rights movement. He can discuss race and politics.

Contact Glasker at 856-225-6080 (office) or glasker@camden.rutgers.edu.

Religion and Politics

MARY SEGERS is a political science professor at Rutgers in Newark. She can comment on many aspects of American politics, with special emphasis on the often-volatile collision of religion and politics in public policy, and issues of special significance to women, such as abortion rights. She teaches courses on religion and politics, and has written widely on the topic. Her books include A Wall of Separation? Debating the Role of Religion in American Public Life (1998), Piety, Politics and Pluralism: Religion, the Courts and the 2000 Election and Abortion Politics in American States (1995, co-edited with Timothy Byrnes).

Contact Segers at 908-522-1573 or msegers88@hotmail.com.

Reproductive Rights

CYNTHIA DANIELS is a professor of political science and womens and gender studies at Rutgers in New Brunswick. She is the author of books including, Lost Fathers: The Politics of Fatherlessness in America, At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights and Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction. She is co-editor of Homework: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home. She can discuss reproductive politics, reproductive policy and abortion.

Contact Daniels at experts@rutgers.edu.

Stem Cell Research

KENNETH J. BRESLAUER is vice president for Health Science Partnerships and dean of the Division of Life Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers in New Brunswick, and a member of the Board of Managers of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. He is a practicing research scientist in biochemistry and a moving force in stem cell initiatives at the university and state levels. Breslauer is well versed in the science of stem cells, their therapeutic potential for the treatment and cure of injury and disease, as well as the political and ethical controversy surrounding them.

Contact Breslauer at 732-445-3956 (office) or kjbdna@rci.rutgers.edu.

Supreme Court

MILTON HEUMMAN is a professor and former chair in the department of political science at Rutgers in New Brunswick. His principle research interests are in the area of legal process, criminal justice and civil liberties. He can discuss issues including the Patriot Act, the Bill of Rights and crime and punishment.

Contact Heumann at 732-932-9265 (office) or heumann@rci.rutgers.edu.

GEORGE ALAN TARR is a professor of political science at Rutgers in Camden, where he directs the Center for State Constitutional Studies. A noted scholar on federal and state constitutional law, he can discuss how the U.S. Supreme Court might change under a new presidency.

Contact Tarr at 856-225-2970 (office) or tarr@camden.rutgers.edu.

Transportation

MARTIN E. ROBINS is founding director and a senior fellow at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. Robins has more than 30 years of experience in transportation planning and policy with such organizations as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and NJ Transit. At VTC, he has conceptualized and implemented a program of policy research and public forums on transportation-related issues affecting New Jersey, the Northeast and the nation. Gov. Jon Corzine has appointed Robins to the Financial Policy Review Board, a new independent oversight panel charged with protecting the solvency of the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund.

Contact Robins at 732-932-6812, ext. 697 (office), or merobins@rci.rutgers.edu.

Women and Politics

SUSAN J. CARROLL is a professor of political science and womens and gender studies as well as a senior scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics (CAWP) in New Brunswick. A nationally recognized expert on womens participation in politics, she has conducted research on women candidates, voters, elected officials and political appointees. Carroll is the author of numerous publications and most recently, the co-editor of Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics.

Contact Carroll at 732-932-9384, ext. 235 (office), or scarroll@rci.rutgers.edu.

MARY HAWKESWORTH is professor and chair of the Department of Womens and Gender Studies and a faculty member in the Department of Political Science in Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick. Her areas of expertise include feminist theory, women and politics, contemporary political philosophy and social policy.

Contact Hawkesworth at 732-932-1151, ext. 634, 732-932-9331 (both office) or mhawkes@rci.rutgers.edu.

RUTH MANDEL, Board of Governors Professor of Politics and director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers in New Brunswick, teaches and writes about womens political history, focusing on women as candidates and officeholders. She developed and directed Eagletons Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), where she remains affiliated as a senior scholar. Mandel is teaching a first-year seminar, Woman for President? and wrote a chapter about women presidential candidates for Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change. She is compiling information on the presidential candidacy of Sen. Hillary Clinton and observed the campaign in action in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Contact Mandel at 732-932-9384, ext. 228 (office), or rmandel@rci.rutgers.edu.

GILDA MORALES is project manager for information services at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), part of Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick. She can discuss statistics relating to women candidates and elected officeholders.

Contact Morales at 732-932-9384, ext. 264 (office), or gmm@rci.rutgers.edu.

DEBBIE WALSH is director of the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and former director of the Program for Women Public Officials at Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick. She can discuss womens participation in American politics as candidates, officeholders and voters, as well as difficulties encountered by women on the road to public office.

Contact Walsh at 732 932-9384, ext. 227 (office), or walsh@rci.rutgers.edu.

Workforce Issues

EILEEN APPELBAUM is a professor of labor and employment relations and director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick. Her areas of expertise include corporate policies and practices, labor market policy, high-performance organizations, low-wage workers, domestic economic policy, women and work, and families and work.

Contact Appelbaum at 732-932-3499 (office) or eappelba@rci.rutgers.edu.

DAVID FINEGOLD is dean of Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick. His interests include the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, corporate governance, education and training of the workforce, employee development, ethics

(especially bio-industry ethics), high-performance organizations and higher education policy.

Contact Finegold at 732-932-4767 or 732-445-5993 (both office) or dfinegold@smlr.rutgers.edu.

DOUG KRUSE is a professor of human resource management and also labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick. His research has focused on the employment and earning effects of disability, and also on the causes, consequences and implications of employee ownership and profit sharing. Kruse has worked with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to design new questions to measure disability on the monthly employment survey. He was appointed by the governor to New Jerseys State Rehabilitation Council and has served on the Presidents Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.

Contact Kruse at 732-932-1744 or 732-445-5991(both office) or dkruse@rci.rutgers.edu.

BARBARA LEE is a professor of human resource management in Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick. Lee, an attorney, conducts research on employment discrimination and other workplace legal issues affecting both academic and business organizations.

Contact Lee at 732-445-1350 (office) or lee@smlr.rutgers.edu.

WILLIAM M. RODGERS III is a professor at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and chief economist at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development in New Brunswick. He was chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor from 2000 to 2001. His widely cited research examines issues in labor economics and the economics of social problems. In recent years, he has focused his research on the impact of the 1990s economic expansion on the earnings and employment of Americans, especially Americans of color.

Contact Rodgers at 732-932-4100, ext. 6203 (office), or wrodgers@rci.rutgers.edu.

LISA SCHUR is a professor of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick. Her research focuses on disability, employment and political participation. She has also researched and published on the causes and consequences of nonstandard work arrangements among people with disabilities, corporate culture and the employment of people with disabilities, and the effect of Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Contact Schur at 732-932-1743 (office) or lschur@rci.rutgers.edu.

LEO TROY is a professor of economics in Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Newark. A labor economist, he has testified before U.S. House and Senate committees on labor issues. He teaches undergraduate courses including Industrial Relations and The History of Economic Thought. He can discuss the future of organized labor and the political contributions of organized labor.

Contact Troy at 973-353-5354, 973-353-5259 (both office) or leotroy@andromeda.rutgers.edu.

CARL VAN HORN is founding director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development and a professor of public policy at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. He is a widely recognized expert on workforce, human resources and employment policy issues, with extensive experience in public and private sector policymaking. He can discuss aspects of U.S. employment policy and U.S./New Jersey workforce preparedness for the future.

Contact Van Horn at 732-932-4100, ext. 6305 (office), or vanhorn@rci.rutgers.edu.

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732-932-7084, Ext.612

E-mail: smanas@ur.rutgers.edu